Feeding Experiments with Isolated Food-Substances

Feeding Experiments with Isolated Food-Substances

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In Publication 156 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington* we have discussed some of the problems of nutrition which have been raised by the newer investigations in the field of protein chemistry. The literature bearing on the feeding of isolated proteins was there reviewed in some detail, together with critical considerations of previously available experimental data. We described a plan for the study of metabolism and illustrated a method of investigation in which white rats were the experimental animals. For the details involved, our earlier paper must be consulted. A few protocols were there presented to show that the outlined mode of investigation offered a promising means for attacking certain questions in the field of nutrition.